Church of St John Evangelist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN EVANGELIST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121617
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John Evangelist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN EVANGELIST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121617
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John Evangelist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN EVANGELIST
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN EVANGELIST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lynesack and Softley
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 09087 26132
Details
LYNESACK AND SOFTLEY LYNESACK
NZ02NE
17/85 Church of St. John
Evangelist
GV II
Parish church. Dated 1847 on left door jamb. Coursed squared sandstone with
ashlar plinth, dressings and quoins; Welsh slate roof with stone gable
copings. 6-bay nave with south porch and shallow west belfry; one-bay chancel
with north vestry. Early English style. 3 steps up to pointed-arched boarded
door under dripmould with shield block stops; steeply-gabled porch roof with
coping on moulded kneelers and roll-moulded finial. Similar dripmoulds to
lancets with alternate-block jambs and sloping sills, 3 at east end and 2 at
west, flanking 4-stage belfry with lancet in first, blocked trefoil in second
and 4 louvred lancets in octagonal top stage with steep conical stone spirelet.
Buttresses, claspingat corners, all with steep coping. Steeply-pitched roof
has damaged angelus finial and small east stone cross.
Interior painted plaster with dado moulding. Collared roof trusses, with
trefoil bracing, on stone corbels; plain chancel roof on single purlins.
Deeply-chamfered chancel arch on half-octagonal stone corbels. Blank
quatrefoil panels in shaped pew ends; pulpit and choir pews in more elaborate
version of same style. Early C20 traceried wood reredos; fluted chancel
panelling. Tiled chancel floor; brass communion rail on leaf-decorated cast
iron balusters. Hammered bronze First World War memorial panel on north wall
of nave. Octagonal stone pulpit with brass lectern. Late C19 organ by Nelson
has stencilled decoration on pipes.
Listing NGR: NZ0908726132
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 17 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111887
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 17 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/10364
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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